English 102 Summer I

Monday, June 16, 2014

WEEK OF JUNE 16-19

I will be in my office for the following times this week:

Mon 6/16 9:30am-1pm

Tues 6/17 11am-12pm?have two meetings on Tuesday so this is the worst day to try to stop by)

Wed 6/18 9:30am-1pm

Thurs 6/19 9:30am-1pm (FINAL PAPER IS DUE!)

Wednesday, June 11, 2014

ENG 102 ESSAY #3*** DUE THURSDAY JUNE 19 THERE IS NO FIRST DRAFT!

Pick ONE of the essay topics below for your paper.

1) Compare Truman from The Truman Show and the prisoner that is freed to view the outside world. Talk about how they were both “imprisoned,” achieved freedom through knowledge and what ends up happening to them. Use examples from the texts along with outside sources to support your thesis.

2) Discuss three symbols (the sun, the cave, the chains, the outside world, the prisoners…to name a few) and explain what they may represent and their importance in “The Allegory of the Cave.” Use examples from the texts along with outside sources to support your thesis.

3) Discuss the effects of Magical Stranger in Literature as seen in "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World", "The Temp" and Edward Scissorhands. Use at least two of these texts to display how a “magical stranger” comes into the lives of these people and changes how they look at themselves. Outside sources on different cultures would help answer this question. Use examples from the texts along with outside sources to support your thesis.

4) We also discussed the importance society places on appearance when discussing "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World", "The Temp" and Edward Scissorhands. Use an example from at least two of these texts to explain how appearance played a role in their stories while discussing how important it is in today’s world. Use examples from the texts along with outside sources to support your thesis.

5) How does Nawabdin change over the course of his story? What is like in the first half of the story and what/why does he change in the second half? How does this complicate your view of him as a character? Use examples from the texts along with outside sources to support your thesis.

6) Pick one character from “Nawabdin,” “Heaven is Not Closed” and Captain Phillips and describe their uniqueness as characters in their respective stories. Use examples from the texts along with outside sources to support your thesis.

7) “Heaven is Not Closed” discusses religious beliefs, educational customs, and socialization practices. Discuss at least two of these ideas and use examples from the text and outside sources to explain how that is seen in the story.

Tuesday, June 10, 2014

How to Cite a Website in MLA

Structure:

Last name, First name. "Article Title." Website Title. Publisher of Website, Day Month Year article

was published. Web. Day Month Year article was accessed. <URL>.

Example:

Cain, Kevin. "The Negative Effects of Facebook on Communication." Social Media Today RSS N.p.,

29 June 2012. Web. 02 Jan. 2013.

http://www.easybib.com/reference/guide/mla/website

Monday, June 9, 2014

Revenge and Nawabdin

These are articles about the psychology of revenge and why it feels so good:

http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/publications/observer/2011/october-11/the-complicated-psychology-of-revenge.html

http://www.apa.org/monitor/2009/06/revenge.aspx

http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2009/06/04/revenge-the-psychology-of-retribution/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/pamela-gerloff/the-psychology-of-revenge_b_856184.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/27/science/payback-time-why-revenge-tastes-so-sweet.html?action=click&module=Search&region=searchResults&mabReward=relbias%3Ar&url=http%3A%2F%2Fquery.nytimes.com%2Fsearch%2Fsitesearch%2F%3Faction%3Dclick%26region%3DMasthead%26pgtype%3DHomepage%26module%3DSearchSubmit%26contentCollection%3DHomepage%26t%3Dqry949%23%2Fwhy+does+revenge+feel+good

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/08/the-cycle-of-revenge/?_php=true&_type=blogs&action=click&module=Search&region=searchResults&mabReward=relbias%3Ar&url=http%3A%2F%2Fquery.nytimes.com%2Fsearch%2Fsitesearch%2F%3Faction%3Dclick%26region%3DMasthead%26pgtype%3DHomepage%26module%3DSearchSubmit%26contentCollection%3DHomepage%26t%3Dqry949%23%2Fwhy+does+revenge+feel+good&_r=0

Monday, June 2, 2014

“The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World”, “The Temp” and Edward Scissorhands

The Importance of appearance:

http://elitedaily.com/news/world/the-importance-of-appearances-man-dresses-as-homeless-man-to-prove-nobody-would-help-him-video/592301/

http://www.ridingthetiger.org/2013/03/19/the-importance-of-appearance/

http://www.byui.edu/Documents/Admin_Offices/Advising/PowerOfPersonalAppearance.pdf

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/22/opinion/sunday/a-facial-theory-of-politics.html?module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3Aw

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/08/appearances-mean-nothing-or-everything/?module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3Aw

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/26/fashion/26looks.html?pagewanted=all&module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3Aw

Office Culture:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/01/opinion/sunday/why-you-hate-work.html?smid=fb-nytimes&WT.z_sma=OP_WYH_20140602&bicmp=AD&bicmlukp=WT.mc_id&bicmst=1388552400000&bicmet=1420088400000&_r=3

http://www.forbes.com/sites/vickvaishnavi/2013/03/28/five-must-follow-rules-for-a-successful-office-culture/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/office-culture/

http://www.immihelp.com/newcomer/work-culture-office-environment-usa.html

https://www.themuse.com/advice/rally-the-team-how-to-create-a-cool-office-culture
Culture:

These links discuss cultural differences and also provides a number of links if you go to the bottom of the page. Use the information they provide as outside sources if you are writing your essay about this subject:

http://blue.butler.edu/~jfmcgrat/culture.htm

http://www.worldwide.edu/travel_planner/culture_shock.html

http://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/ijps/article/view/4510

Here is one on the effects of culture shock:
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=effects+culture+shock&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart&sa=X&ei=tIk6T-mJBaLn0QHXj5GXCw&ved=0CBoQgQMwAA

Links for "The Handsomest Drowned Man In the World":

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=THE+HANDSOMEST+DROWNED+MAN+IN+THE+WORLD&as_sdt=1%2C31&as_sdtp=

This week we will look at “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World”, “The Temp” and Edward Scissorhands in class. All three of these stories contain individuals that become part of a community in some way and have profound effects of the people. In “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World” it is a corpse that washes ashore that gives the townspeople a new way of looking at their lives, in “The Temp” it is a temp hired in an office that changes the atmosphere of the wor enviroment and in Edward Scissorhands it is a unique young man that forces a rather boring town to see how boring and judgmental they really are. This week pay attention to what these “magical strangers” force the people in the stories to look at it in their lives.